Huntting Elevator Co. v. Bosworth

Citations

• 179 U.S. 415
• 21 S. Ct. 183
• 45 L. Ed. 256
• 1900 U.S. LEXIS 2006

Syllabus

<p>This case involves deciding whether the defendants in error are liable for the damage occasioned to certain property, resulting from a fire which occurred on October 28, 1894, in a railroad yard at East St. Louis, Illinois. At the time of the fire Bosworth was operating the railway as receiver. The decision depends largely, if not entirely, on facts, which are stated at great length by the court, both in the statement of the case, and in its opinion. These papers are most carefully prepared. While both deal with facts, those facts are stated with clearness, with fullness, with completeness, and with unusual care. They leave nothing untouched. Without treating them with the same fullness, the reporter, feels himself unable to prepare a headnote which could convey an adequate and just account of the opinion and decision of the court. Under these circumstances he deems it best not to attempt an impossibility, ' but to_ respectfully ask the readers of this headnote to regard the opinion of the court in this case as incorporated into it.</p>